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claim

if there was no decomposes  then plants or animals wont get broke down.  that means that it would just sit on the ground. from that it would destroy the whole food web.

evidence

1. Eco-Column-orange rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
4 When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

reasoning

if this were to happen there would be a missing of fungi, Bactria, and detritivores. that is very important to life. Also usually when plants decompose it makes room for more organisms to grow and live. Then primary consumers wont get any food to eat so they would die out. So the whole food web and chain would be gone. from that we would also be greatly impacted. Our food would be gone from this. that would cause humans to be gone. Decompose usually helps plants grow but when that is gone it would be very hard for plants to be fertile and grow.

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Decomposition Scientific Explanation

Claim:

In the aftermath of the removal of decomposers, the absence of bacteria, fungi, and detritivores, will result in the immediate pileup of dead organisms, but will eventually lead to the depletion of all living organisms and the end of all biogeochemical cycles.

Evidence:

1. Decomposition in my Eco-Column was present.  I know this because my orange was broken down.

2. Nitrogen Cycle Game

3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.

When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:

In the aftermath of the removal of decomposers, the absence of bacteria, fungi, and detritivores, will result in the immediate pileup of dead organisms, but will eventually lead to the depletion of all living organisms and the end of all biogeochemical cycles.  When nitrogen from the atmosphere enters the soil, it undergoes nitrogen fixation, resulting in Ammonia NH3, and nitrification, resulting in Nitrite (NO2) and Nitrate (NO3).  After this stage, the processed nitrogen will enter plants.  Although decomposers will recycle the nitrogen back into the soil when the plant dies through ammonification, this system can be replenished by the atmospheric nitrogen for hundreds of years without decomposers.  This proves that the nitrogen cycle won’t be critically affected by an absence of decomposers in the near future, but a pile up of dead organisms would be observed.  The nitrogen cycle game results in this same conclusion when the nitrogen atom got stuck in the dead plant or animal slide.  During the phosphorus cycle, when a plant dies, the phosphorus it contains will be recycled back into the soil.  Here, the phosphorus will either be reabsorbed by another plant, or  leaching or mixing with water can occur, and the phosphorus will eventually end up in the bottom of a lake or ocean.  The phosphorus will pile up and be cemented, forming phosphate containing sedimentary rocks including limestone and mudstone.  As time passes, geologic uplift and weathering will cause these rocks to release phosphate ions, which are available to plants.  This proves that the phosphorus cycle can replenish itself for a while.  Carbon cycles through the carbon cycle in the form of carbon dioxide and other inorganic and organic compounds.  Carbon, a vital ingredient of photosynthesis enters plants as carbon dioxide along with water and sunlight.  The result of photosynthesis is glucose and oxygen.  Animals receive carbon by eating plants and receive oxygen by breathing the oxygen plants released.  Plants can then reuse the carbon dioxide the animal breathed out.  Decomposers come into play when the plant or animal dies.  When this happens, the decomposer will eat the organic matter and release carbon dioxide (an inorganic form of carbon).  This proves that the carbon cycle can still run for a few years after decomposers are removed from this planet.  For all of these biogeochemical cycles, I have mentioned that they can run for a while after the decomposers are terminated from this planet.  After this set amount of time, all biogeochemical cycles will collapse, resulting in the depletion of all organisms on this planet.  In a small ecosystem such as an eco-column, all biogeochemical cycles will shut down immediately because the decomposition layer cannot produce any carbon dioxide and nitrogen.  All these pieces of evidence prove that in the aftermath of the removal of decomposers, the absence of bacteria, fungi, and detritivores, will result in the immediate pileup of dead organisms, but will eventually lead to the depletion of all living organisms and the end to all biogeochemical cycles.

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he whole fod chain is one of the key parts of living things. When thing, especially something as big as decomposers were to not be there, there would be so much extra matter, and way too much nitrogen. In this case, if

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If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
If decomposers disappeared nothing would break down and there would excess dead organisms and plants affecting the food chain. Also when decomposers break down things it creates room for other organisms to live and grow and keeps parts the food chain running.

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Claim: If decomposers disappeared then there wouldn't be anything to break down the dead animals and plants, which would lead to plants not getting nutrients and animals not being able to get food, so the whole food chain would break apart.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
If the decomposers suddenly disappeared,  there would be so many dead carcases lying around. With that being said, with nothing to break down the carcasses or dead animals, it would mess up the whole food chain. Decomposers break apart animals which then go into the soil andd create nutrients, without the dead animals being taken apart, there would be no nutrients for the food chain. That would mean that the primary consumers wouldn't get any food and would eventually die out. That would mean that the secondary consumers wouldn't get any food either and so on and so forth. Needless to say,  without decomposers, our food chain would not work and it would affect every species that is apart of the food chain.

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Sophia Lake                                         Period 6

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Sophia Lake                                         Period 6

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning:
The wholefood chain is very fragile and if one thing is gone everything will go.  What I mean by that is if the decomposers leave there would be no producer, with no producers there would be no primary consumers, with no primary consumers there would be no secondary consumers, with no secondary consumers there would be territory consumers, with out them there would be no apex predictors, finally without them there would be no food web at all.  The decomposers are also very important because the “Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”  That is why in our Eco-Column we have to add some old food so they can act as the decomposers. Like a lemon rotting and being broken down. That is why the decomposers are very important to the ecosystem, even though they are at the bottom.

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Period 6
Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
If the decomposers suddenly disappeared,  there would be so many dead carcases lying around. With that being said, with nothing to break down the carcasses or dead animals, it would mess up the whole food chain. Decomposers break apart animals which then go into the soil andd create nutrients, without the dead animals being taken apart, there would be no nutrients for the food chain. That would mean that the primary consumers wouldn't get any food and would eventually die out. That would mean that the secondary consumers wouldn't get any food either and so on and so forth. Needless to say,  without decomposers, our food chain would not work and it would affect every species that is apart of the food chain. Thank you for reading this, have a great day!

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Period 6

Claim: If decomposers disappeared then there wouldn't be anything to break down the dead animals and plants, which would lead to plants not getting nutrients and animals not being able to get food, so the whole food chain would break apart.

Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: Because decomposers break down the nutrients it would cause nothing to be broken down leading to the food web being destroyed. Also when the ecosystem and food web get destroyed, all other animals that are still alive wouldn't have food.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
Reasoning:
If decomposers were not a thing on earth, there would be a many things that would change. for example, if there was nothing to decompose food like banana peel's and cor's of apples, food like that would rot and sit there for many years. Another thing that would be ruined is the food web, without incects like worms and other incects, animals like birds could not survive without this kind of food sorce. Not only would the birds die, but other animals who eat birds such as foxes would also die without this food scorce, this could now destroy the whole food web. This is why decomposers are very important to our earth.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: if the decomposers were gone there would be less energy for plants and animals to feed off of and the entire food web and nitrogen cycle would mess up.

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Claim:

If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: The whole fod chain is one of the key parts of living things. When thing, especially something as big as decomposers were to not be there, there would be so much extra matter, and way too much nitrogen. In this case, if there were not any decomposers in our eco column, there would be a huge imbalence of matter inside the eco-column. The water would probably build up toxins and the terrestrial layer would have a lot of excess things in it that may disrupt the balence of the eco-column.

Reasoning:  If the decomposition layer was taken out there would be too much nutrients. decomposers break down nutrients to make new plants. this would not be possible if there were'nt any of them.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: if the decomposers were gone there would be less energy for all living things and it would be harder for living things to survive

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Claim: If there was no decomposers there would be no one to clear up the dead bodies naturally. All the bodies would pile up one by one. They're would also be no one to clean up trash like compost.
Evidence: 1.
Eco-Column-lemon rotting are broken down.
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3. Nutrients are nonliving matter that are needed for the growth of lots of living organisms.
Reasoning: If decomposers like bacteria and worms didn't exists, it would make it harder to live. Eventually the world could be crowded with bodies and it would be very hard to get around without seeing one.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: The decomposers are very important due to them being able to break down nutrients, and if there were none than the whole ecosystem would be ruined. Decomposers are a big carbon dioxide source in our eco- columns. Without decomposers there would be bodies of animals piling up, without using there nutrients to support plants. Without decomposers the plants won't have enough nutrients, and that will eventually kill the animals that eat the plants, than the animals that eat the animals that eat plants. It will wreck our entire food chain.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: If the decomposition layer was taken out there would be no energy and less air for the living organisms to survive. And since decomposers break down dead things there would be so many dead things everywhere and then there would be way less energy for the animals and the nitrogen cycle will be messed up.

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claim:
If there were no decomposers,  there would be nothing to break down the dead organisms and bring the nutrients into the plants or atmosphere.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning:
If there were no decomposers in the Eco column, the lemon that is rotting would just stay were they were and there would be no decomposers to bring the nutrients back to the soil. This will make the plant not be able to live properly and the plant won't be able to make more oxygen and the primary consumers won't have anything to consume in the Eco column making the Eco column fail. For the Nitrogen cycle game, if there wasn't a decomposers level, the nitrogen cycle won't be a cycle because the decomposers are the organisms that break down the dead organisms and return the nutrients or nitrogen back into the cycle. The decomposers is the part of the nitrogen cycle that is keeping it together. without it, the nitrogen cycle would end when the organism is dead. The decomposers break the dead organisms back into gasses and nutrients that are not living, for organisms like plants to use to keep it alive. This also helps us humans. The nutrients that goes into the soil will make the plants healthy and strong so they can convert the carbon dioxide back into oxygen that is breathable for humans. This also helps primary consumers like cows who need the plants so they can gain energy from them. We are secondary consumers like many other animals. We eat the primary consumers and get their energy. like how we eat steak from cows. This evidence tells us that decomposers are important, and without them, there would be nothing to break apart the dead.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
All this happens because nitrogen gets stored in animals. Without these carcases will just sit their nitrogen would get stored in dead animals and their would be a serious shortage of nitrogen. Also without the soil getting enriched through them plants couldn't grow plants and animals would die and we would slowly face a mass extinction event.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
If we removed decomposers from the Eco-Column the decomposition layer would not function correctly because the leaves, food scraps, and other material would not get broken down. This means that the soil would have no nutrients. The Nitrogen Game is also a great example of what would happen if there were no decomposers. The Nitrogen cycle would be disrupted if there were no decomposers because there would be no plant growth, which means that herbivores will not have plants, carbivores will not have meat, and humans will not have oxygen. When organisms die, they need to be broken down by decomposers or else there would be animal carcasses piling up on the earth. In conclusion, decomposers are a very important organism in our ecosystem that cannot be disrupted.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers  other animals would not be able to live because the decomposers are a really big part and if there weren't any then nothing would get decomposed.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: This is important because then there could be no food chain and that means that living things would not be able to eat.

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Claim: If decomposers were wiped out, the would be nothing to give the nutrients back to the Earth.
Evidence: 1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: If the decomposition layer in the eco-column was taken out the food would not be there to give energy to the fish and live organisms in the aquatic layer. Matter can't be created or destroyed so in the Nitrogen cycle game, the atom had to go somewhere after each stage and if the decomposers were taken out the atom would not be able to continue on. When a decomposer decomposes something, it puts the nutrients back into the earth for the plants and animals to use. If they weren't there, the energy would not be recycled.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: The quote said that decomposers break down dead matter into nutrients and gasses so they can be used by other organisms. If there were no decomposers, nothing would break down the matter in dead organisms, so nothing else would be able use the nutrients and gasses in dead organsims, and with nothing to break down the dead organisms, carcasses would just pile up. This could be represented by the eco column because if there were no decomposers in the second level, everything put in it would just stay there, and the decomposition section would not work. This can also be represented by the nitrogen cycle game because without decomposers, in the game all the nitrogen atoms would get stuck, and would not be able to continue the cycle. Without decomposers, the cycles would be disrupted, and plants wouldn't be able to get nutrients, and would die out. This would also cause everything else in the food chain to die out because plants are the base of the food chain, and it would ultimately cause the extinction of at least all of the eukaryotes.

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Claim:

If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: The whole fod chain is one of the key parts of living things. When thing, especially something as big as decomposers were to not be there, there would be so much extra matter, and way too much nitrogen. In this case, if there were not any decomposers in our eco column, there would be a huge imbalence of matter inside the eco-column. The water would probably build up toxins and the terrestrial layer would have a lot of excess things in it that may disrupt the balence of the eco-column.

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Claim: if there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence: 1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: If we didn't have any decomposers, they wouldn't be able to break down anything therefor wouldn't be able to give nutrients back into the ecosystem. The consumers must obtain their nutrients and energy by eating other organisms. But if there were no decomposers, the consumers wouldn't be able to survive because they would have no nutrients because nutrients comes from plants and plants wouldn't be able to grow.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning:
This evidence supports my claim because the eco column is like a mini eco system because it simulates decomposers breaking down materials and turning them into nutrients to help the plants and fish survive. The nitrogen cycle game is how nitrogen goes through everything, so if there were no decomposers nitrogen would have no way of going to live plants or soil. If there were no decomposers the food chain and web would break because there would be no nutrients to support the plants which will die and the primary consumers cant eat so they will die, and so on.

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Palmer Testa Period 6     Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break down and decompose dead organisms, therefore causing dead carcasses to pile up on Earth. This would, in turn, destroy the whole food web. Evidence: 1. Eco-Column-goldfish rotting and being broken down. 2. Nitrogen Cycle Game 3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are essential to the growth of living organisms.

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Palmer Testa Period 6     Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break down and decompose dead organisms, therefore causing dead carcasses to pile up on Earth. This would, in turn, destroy the whole food web. Evidence: 1. Eco-Column-goldfish rotting and being broken down. 2. Nitrogen Cycle Game 3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are essential to the growth of living organisms.

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Reasoning: When organisms die, they decompose and the nutrients are broken down and returned back into the atmosphere. These nutrients are in the soil, the air,  infiltrating plants, helping them grow and helping other organisms, as well. It's all a circular cycle....going round and round and impacting the growth and life of all living organisms.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning:
These peices of evidence support my claim because the
eco column represents how when the organic matter is broken down the nutrients is transfered into the aquatic plant and the grass. The nitrogen cycle game also represents how the Decomposers are a big part of the cycles. If I removed the decomposition layer of the eco column, the plant and the grass wouldn't get any nutrients and the organic matter would just stay there forever and never go away.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
Decomposers help remove dead animals and nutrients so that the world does not overload with them. Also in the food web game, it showed how if just one species was removed it could make the entire web collapse.

Reasoning:
The world would overload with dead corpses and nutrients if all of the decomposers on Earth were wiped out.

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Claim:-If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

evidence-When organisms die,  they have a lot of nutrients and energy. that energy and nutrients doesn't dies with them, it has to go somewhere. In our eco column when the worms decompose the dead plants. Petrified trees still exist.

reasoning- Wastes and the remains of dead organisms would pile up and the nutrients within the waste and dead organisms would not be released back into the ecosystem. Producers would not have enough nutrients

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be an overflow of carcasses and a huge nitrogen build up. 
Evidence: without the decomposition layer the fish would not survive and neither would the plants. In the nitrogen cycle game with out the decomposers the dead animals would have nowhere to go and that would end the cycle .The nutrients that come from decomposers would be gone and that would offset the entire Eco system.
Reasoning: If there were no decomposers than there would be an over flow of dead animal bodies and that would cause the nitrogen in those bodies to build up as they are not being broken down. this would happen because if you did not have the decomposer slide the dead bodies would just pile up and so would the nitrogen. without the nitrogen the plants would suffer as well. this is what i think would happen if decomposers never existed.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be an overflow of carcasses and a huge nitrogen build up.
Evidence: Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms. without the decomposition layer the fish would not survive and neither would the plants. In the nitrogen cycle game with out the decomposers the dead animals would have nowhere to go and that would end the cycle .The nutrients that come from decomposers would be gone and that would offset the entire Eco system.
Reasoning: If there were no decomposers than there would be an over flow of dead animal bodies and that would cause the nitrogen in those bodies to build up as they are not being broken down. this would happen because if you did not have the decomposer slide the dead bodies would just pile up and so would the nitrogen. without the nitrogen the plants would suffer as well. this is what i think would happen if decomposers never existed.

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Claim: If here were no decomposes plants wouldn't get enough nutrients to break dead organisms
Evidence:
Decomposers help take nutrients from dead things.

Reasoning: There would be a lot of dead animals and plants everywhere you walked

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If there was no decomposers the food chain both the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle would be ruined . Not to mention the hundreds of carcasses lying around.

evidence:
When organisms die,  they have a lot of nutrients and energy. that energy and nutrients doesn't dies with them, it has to go somewhere. In our eco column when the worms decompose the dead plants. Petrified trees still exist.

reasoning: This has happened before, just on a much smaller scale, long ago the conifer tree lived among the dinosaurs, but there was. a problem. the brown rot fungi didn't exist yet, meaning that the trees just stayed there, soon they fossilized and now we have petrified forests. in our Eco column, if there were no decomposes, the fish would not get the nutrients to survive. That means no fertilizer for the plant which would make them die too. When carbon flows through animals, it should be brought back into the ground to give around as well as nitrogen. without fungi the atoms would never leave.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: Decomposers are important because, if the decomposers weren't in the eco column were non, then things wouldn't get decomposed, and the plants wouldn't get nutrient. If there weren't decomposers in the nitrogen cycle game, then if you died, you would just stop, you would have no where to go. Plants also wouldn't be able to get the nutrients from dead animals, and some plants would die, which would cause some herbivores to die, and potentially some carnivores.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: If there where no decomposers than they can’t turn dead stuff into nutrients and release it into the atmosphere and keep cycling that which would help bring nutrients. So without it would cause all the dead animals and whatever else to just pile up and hurt our ecosystem with no way to recycle nutrients back to the earth.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning:
Imagine what would happen if there were no decomposers. Wastes and the remains of dead organisms would pile up and the nutrients within the waste and dead organisms would not be released back into the ecosystem. Producers would not have enough nutrients. ... Essentially, many organisms could not exist.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:  if there where no decomposers we would not be alive because we need  decomposers  to break things down so the can start the cycle again.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.

Reasoning:
If the lemon didn't break down, the nutrients wouldn't go into the soil and “Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms." and so living organisms will not grow. Also, if you take the decomposer slide out of the nitrogen cycle slide show, it is not a cycle.

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Claim: If here were no decomposes plants wouldn't get enough nutrients to break dead organisms

Evidence:
decomposes help take nutrients from dead things
The Nitrogen Cycle game

Reasoning: There would be a lot of dead animals and plants if this all didn't happen. That would be bad for the environment
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Claim: 
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

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Claim. If there were no decomposers the world would be a disaster.

Evidence: there would be less nutrients for plants and living things. Also there would be lots of dead stuff laying around witch is really  weird.

Reasoning: Decomposers takak dead stuff and turn them in to nutrients. they also decompose stuff like dead animals and humans. So imagine walking on teh street and just seeing dead animals everywhere.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-banana rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposes break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning: We would not be able to survive if it wasn't for decomposers. We need the things that they give off to us to live such as nitrogen. They also break down dead organisms and give us the nutrients back. This helps the other surroundings to grow which give us even more things to live. Without these organisms, there would be dead plants and animals all over the place that would just rot and make the earth unhealthy. The way these organisms cycle is very important because of what they do and how it impacts us.

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Claim -
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”Reasoning -
We wouldn't be alive without decomposers, because we need nitrogen to live, and so do plants. Without decomposers, the nitrogen cycle would be affected, and so will the rest of our food chain. That would affect us in some indirect way.

Reasoning - Without decomposers, our whole food chain would be affected, as well as the nitrogen cycle, which we need to live. Decomposers break down dead bodies and compost, which also helps plants thrive aka do photosynthesis, which us consumers need to live. So, all in all, we would all basically not be able to live without decomposers.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-banana peel rotting, growing mold, and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: It is all a cycle. Decomposers break down dead organisms and return the nutrients into the soil. This can help grow plants, which other animals can eat, and then they die and are broken down. Without decomposers breaking down the dead organisms, there would be too many dead organisms in an ecosystem. Also, if decomposers weren't around to break down dead organisms into nutrients, less plants would grow, causing some organisms to not be able to eat food. To sum it all up, if there were no decomposers, it would throw the whole cycle off balance.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, the food chain cycle would be disrupted and affect everything.

Evidence:
*The food chain is a cycle
*The plants get energy from the sun, primary consumers get energy from the plants, secondary and tertiary consumers get energy from other consumers, decomposers get energy from all consumers, and soil gets it from the decomposers. Then the soil gives energy to plants along with the sun, and the cycle is repeated.
*A cycle needs all of the parts in order to repeat
* In the eco-column the decomposition layer is the connecting piece

Reasoning: People, who are consumers, need food. Plants need soil with nutrients, and animals eat those plants, so in a way everything needs soil from decomposers. Without them, nothing would survive because there would be less nutrients, which means less plants, which means less animals, which means less soil all over again. In addition to this, decompostion is what connects the aquatic and terrestrial layers of the eco-column. This happens in real life too. When things in the terrestrial layer rot, they are decomposed and put back in soil, which grows more plants, which feed bugs. Then, fish and aquatic animals in rivers eat these bugs, then they are eaten, and the cycle continues. So, we need decomposers.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to decompose dead organisms like dead plants and animals. This would destroy the whole food web.
Evidence: When a plant or animal dies, the decomposer decomposes it and puts all of the remaining nutrients into the ground.
Reasoning: We need decomposers because without them, dead plants and animals would be everywhere, and there isn't enough scavengers to eat all of the dead animals. The cycle of matter is very important because without it, the whole food web and food chain would fall apart.

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Claim: Without decomposers, plants would not get enough nutrients, and the nitrogen cycle would be disrupted

Evidence:
- Decomposers take nutrients from dead bodies, and put it into soil
- Plants use nutrients from soil to survive.

Reasoning:
Decomposers break down dead bodies, and give the nutrients from those carcasses to the soil. Without them, many plants would die, and that would seriously affect the nitrogen cycle, and us humans. Without Plants, we would not have as much oxygen. When plants do photosynthesis, they require nutrients from the soil, and without that, they can't preform photosynthesis. If plants preform photosynthesis they don'y make oxygen. The same goes with trees, and they produce even more oxygen for us. It would destroy the nitrogen cycle because carcasses would build up, and the nutrients would not be broken down and returned to the atmosphere.

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Claim: Without decomposers, the an ecosystem would not be possible.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
When an organism dies, it should be broken up by decomposers and turned into nutrients that other organisms could use. Without them, there wouldn't be nutrients being recycled so no other organisms can consume the nutrients that they need to live, then the next animals that eat those ones, and so on. It would completely destroy an ecosystem and food chain, and the balance in an ecosystem wouldn't exist.

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Claim: decomposers leaving the earth would destroy the whole food web, there would be nothing to break down the dead organisms, carcass would build up, and nutrients would not return to the soil!

Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-Banana peel rotting and growing mold
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
Decomposers leaving the earth would destroy the whole food web, there would be nothing to break down the dead organisms, carcass would build up, and nutrients would not return to the soil! In my Eco-column decomposition is being demonstrated by the banana peel being broken down by decomposers. If those decomposers were not there, the dead organisms would not be able to get broken down! Carcass would pile up on earth. (modeled by the banana peel.) From the Nitrogen cycle game, we learned that decomposers are important in the cycle of life because they break down the dead organisms, and return the nutrients back to the soil, continuing the cycle. As a nitrogen atom I was in a dead animals body, got decomposed, and sent back to the soil. Then the cycle repeats. Without that decomposition step the cycle will end causing everything to be effected servery. In the game, the decomposers could also break you down so you are absorbed by the roots of a live plant! If decomposers were not present, nutrients would not return to the soil and back to the plant. This is bad because then plants can not grow! "When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.” Plants require nutrients in the soil to grow. The decomposers provide those nutrients. Without the plants, we could not live because plants release oxygen as they take in carbon dioxide. We need oxygen to live. Not only are humans effected by the loss of plants, but herbivores need plants as their energy source. Moving on, carnivores need herbivores as their energy source. Tertiary's need carnivores as their energy source, and so on! This all starts with decomposers leaving. Therefore, decomposers leaving the earth would destroy the whole food web, there would be nothing to break down the dead organisms, carcass would build up, and nutrients would not return to the soil!

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be an overflow of carcasses and a huge nitrogen build up.

Eviedence: There would be rot everywhere because the decomposers jobs are to make sure that nothing rots by eating the carcasses and putting the remaining carcass of an animal or a plant back into the earth so that it doesn't rot and there aren't dead animals lying everywhere. Also the atoms won't go anywhere because the ones living in the dead animals are not going to get transferred by the decomposers.

Reasoning: Because everything would rot the earth would slowly run out of nutrients. This is because the decomposers job is to break down the carcass and the dead matter and put it back into the earth. If this was not accruing then the soil would no longer be rich for the plants, therefore the plants would not grow and there would no longer be a constant flow of oxygen so everything would die. Also because the the atoms would just stay in the dead animals the constant flow of energy would be disrupted causing everything to die once again. A way to look at this on a smaller scale would be the Eco columns. If the Eco columns did not have a decomposing level the fish would not be getting enough nutrients to survive. This means that the fish along with the snails would die from undernourishment

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Claim: If there were no decomposers the enery from the dead animals wouldn't be recycled back to the enviorment causing an end of the foodweb.

Evidence:
1. Nitrogen cycle game
2. eco column- Lemon Rotting and being broken down.
3. “Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
Decomposers break down the bodies of dead plants and animals  absorbing the nutrients and channeling it into the earth. The nutrients are absorbed by plants and then eaten by consumers who die only to be broken down by the decomposers. This creates the life cycle. If there were no decomposers the earth would be a pile of dead bodies and life wouldn't continue without having the energy recycled.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence:
1. Nitrogen Cycle Game
2. Eco-Column
2. “Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning:
In the Eco-Column, the organic matter decomposing in the decomposition level gives nutrients to the soil that the sprouts in the terrestrial level are growing in. In the Nitrogen Cycle Game, there was a decomposer slide. The 2 options for this slide. The first was to be decomposed and then absorbed into a plant. The second was to be decomposed into nutrients in the soil. Either way, the matter is being recycled back into the Earth.

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Claim: If there were no decomposes there would be a huge change.

Evidence: It would be harder for plants to get nutrients and there would just be a lot of dead stuff laying around. That would be weird.

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Claim:
If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1. Eco-column - Lemon Rotting and being broken down.
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3. ‘’Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms. When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.’’
Reasoning: Without decomposers, nutrients wouldn’t return to the soil. That would cause less organisms to be created. This happens because plants rely on the nutrients brought to the soil by decomposers. Animals rely on plants for energy and food. Decomposers return the dead animals and plants to the soil but if that didn’t happen, the ecosystem would be affected badly and animals and plants would die. So, if there were no decomposers, all of the living organisms in the ecosystem would die and the ecosystem would be ruined.

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Claim:If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:

1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: Since all of the dead animals will be piled up and not broken down, there will be no nutrients to go back to the plants. There will be no good farmland because the animals will just be stacked up and the soil would not be nutritious. The nutrients would not be returned to the nitrogen cycle. There would be no trees left, therefore there will be no oxygen to supply the humans so there will be only carbon to breathe and humans will die.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers , there would be nothing to break down the dead plants and animals and the the world would be filled with dead plants and animals and there would be no nutriens for the living plants.

evidence: Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-orange rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.Plants die without the nutrients from dead carcasses.

reasoning :  if there was no decoposers dead plants and animals would be everywere  and the living plants would die from lack of nutrition

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claim: with out decomposers food webs and chains would be destroyed.
Evidence: when a plant or animal die decomposers will come and decompose it and put the nutrients back into the ground to help plants grow. without decomposers plants wouldn't have enough nutrients so there would be less plants. Another piece of evidence is the nitrogen cycle game and if we didnt have decomposers the nitrogen won't get recycled and thats not good it interrupts the cycle.
Reasoning: with less plants lets say gazelles wouldn't have enough food so they will die and then lions and cheetahs don't have enough food.

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Claim: Life on earth would be different without decomposers and more dead matter
evidence: 1 In my eco cloumn the decomposition layer is where dead leaves and bark are being decomposed
2  Nitrogen Cycle Game
3 Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.
reasoning: decomposers are important to us because they break down dead matter. When a living thing dies it gets broken down so there won't be dead stuff lying around everywhere. Imagine there being dead animals and living things everywhere which is not good and if decomposers were not here than there would be dead living things everywhere. With decomposers, they help by breaking down dead stuff so it does not lay there forever.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.

Evidence: Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning: If there were no decomposers, dead animals would be everywhere. It would be crazy. The carcases would be everywhere and the dead animals would just stay there and there would be dead animals all over the eco system. For example if there were no earth worms it would affect the earth including us humans therefore we need the decomposers.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers then dead plants and animals would build up, and carcasses would be everywhere and there wouldn't be any room left for new things to grow.

Evidence: In the nitrogen cycle game decomposers break down dead things and the nutrients from those dead things is absorbed into the soil. In the ecocolumn without the decomposition layer then the fish would not be able to survive, and the plants wouldn't be able to survive.

Reasoning: Without the decomposition layer on the ecocolumn the fish and plants wouldn't be able to get nutrients because the nutrients they get is reused from the decomposition layer. Also, in the nitrogen cycle game the nitrogen atom is able to be reused by many different organisms, but if there wasn't decomposers then all the dead things wouldn't be able to be broken down.

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Claim: Without decomposers the soil will be malnourished and there would be many dead animals and carcasses lying on the ground.

Evidence:
Decomposers decompose dead material from animals. The decomposers return the dead material back into nutrients for the soil to consume.

Reasoning:
Without decomposers, the food cycle would have to majorly change in a way that would work for all the parts in a ecosystem without the decomposer. Since the decomposers are gone, there would be no possible way for a dead body to get decomposed. If we take a look at the nitrogen cycle, we could clearly see that a decomposer decomposes dead carcasses and returns nutrients back to the soil for the plants to consume.

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Claim:
Our earth would not be alive if there were no decomposers and other dead animals or trees would not pile up on earth and grow again

Evidence:
Decomposers help break down nutrients and also is we did not have worms it would impacked us a lot because a worm is a decomposer that help breack down things

Reasoning:
If there was no decomposers there would not be anythings growing again like decomposersare breaking down plants and other things and decomposers help to bring back plants and it is like a cycle game decomposer does what ever it needs and then brings the plant back so it is a whole cycle game with the decomposers

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Claim:
If there were no decomposes there would be a huge build up of dead animals and nutrients would not be returned to the nitrogen cycle, destroying the food web.

Evidence:
-Eco Column decomposition layer
-Nitrogen cycle game
-Nutrients are essential for the survival of organisms

Reasoning:
If there were no decomposes there would be a huge build up of dead animals and nutrients would not be returned to the nitrogen cycle, destroying the food web. I think this because in the Eco column, the dead plants in the decomposition layer began to break down, so if the decomposition layer was removed all of those dead plants and animals would not get broken down causing a build up of dead animals and plants. Another piece of evidence that supports this claim is that nutrients are essential for the survival of organisms and in the nitrogen cycle decomposers were responsible for returning nutrients to plants. If the decomposers were removed nutrients would not be returned to the plants and it would cause every organism in the food web to be majorly effected because without nutrients they would die.

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claim:
without decomposers, the whole food chain would be messed up and there would be a build up of dead plants.

evidence:
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

reasoning:
The cycles are all dependent on each other. If decomposers were not there, the soil would not be rich and the plants would not be healthy and there would be way more dead plant build-up. The nitrogen cycle game proved this point because if you took away the decomposers slide, you would not be able to get to the soil or live plants slide(meaning they would die). The quote also proves my claim because decomposers turn dead things into nutrience, which provides healthy plants and soil. Because everyone is dependent on everyone, the dead plants would contribute to dead animals who eat plants, and dead animals who eat the other animals.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, we would die
Evidence: Decomposers are part of web so if they die everything will die in the web. There would also be a lot of dead bodies everywhere.
Reasoning: People need decomposer to live

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Claim: If there were no decomposers then dead things would pile up on the ground and there would be no room left for new things to grow.

Evidence: In the nitrogen cycle the decomposers break down dead things to produce nutrients in the soil and it releases their nitrogen into the air. Matter can't be destroyed it can only be changed. The decomposition layer in the eco-column is giving the fish nutrients.

Reasoning: If there were no decomposers then lots of dead animals and other things would be on the ground which would leave all of that space taken up. Without decomposers all of that stuff is on the ground and there is not space to grow new things like plants. None of the nitrogen that is in the animals would be produced back into the air and all of the nutrients wouldn't be put into the soil. Then plants wouldn't be able to grow as well as they do and their would be no nitrogen for the nitrogen cycle.

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Claim: if there were no decomposers then there would be lots of carcasses all over the earth and the would  keep piling up until there was no room left

evidence:
without the decomposers  the nitrogen being released the cycle would collapse

Reasoning: we depend on decomposers

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claim: if there was no decomposers there would not be anything to break down dead things and there would be an excess amount of nitrogen.

Evidence: without decomposition in the eco collumm nothing would survive.

Reasoning: so without decomposers there would be many problems.

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Claim: Without decomposers there would be no way to break down dead bodys and no nutrients would be released into the world.

Evidence: Decomposers feed on dead things and rotting things, and release their nutrients to help the soil and plants. They also release nitrogen when they break down dead plants and animals.

Reasoning: Therefore without decomposers the world would build up with all these dead animal carcases and plants. There would be no nutrients pased to the soil from the dead plants and animals and plants would die would would screw up the entire ecosystem.So this shows how important the decomposers on earth are to its survival.

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be an overflow of carcasses and a huge nitrogen build up.
Evidence: without the decomposition layer the fish would not survive and neither would the plants. In the nitrogen cycle game with out the decomposers the dead animals would have nowhere to go and that would end the cycle .The nutrients that come from decomposers would be gone and that would offset the entire Eco system.
Reasoning: If there were no decomposers than there would be an over flow of dead animal bodies and that would cause the nitrogen in those bodies to build up as they are not being broken down. this would happen because if you did not have the decomposer slide the dead bodies would just pile up and so would the nitrogen. without the nitrogen the plants would suffer as well. this is what i think would happen if decomposers never existed.

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Without decomposers life would have been different, for example die organisms would not have been broken down so we would find a lot of dead organisms.  Second of all nutrients would not have been given to the atmosphere some nutrients wouldn't be given to other organisms,and without nutrients all animals would die and then we wouldn't have anything to eat. It's just like a domino affection and knock one Domino down all will fall.

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Claim: Without decomposers, there would be no way to cycle nutrients and break down dead organisms.
Evidence: When an organism dies, a decomposer breaks it down.
- In the nitrogen cycle, decomposers break down dead organisms to release the nitrogen and other compounds.
- In the Eco Column
Reasoning:
Without demcomposers, the earth is going to be a giant clump of dead things. the soil is ruined because no nutrient is return from the dead animals, leaf , and bugs. thus trees will die leaving us with just carbon in air which is going to affect us. this is why decomposers are something that is very crucial to our lives and other living things.

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Claim: If there was no decomposers there would be no way to recylce nurtients back to the earth.

Evidence:
1. When a animal dies a decomposer breaks down that animal and returns its nutrients back to the soil.
2.  In the nitrogen cycle the decomposers break down dead animal and release their nitrogen back into the air.

Resoning: If there were no decomposer there would be a lot of leftover dead animals, if there were no decomposers this would hurt most ecosystems around the world because there would be no way to recycle nurtients back to the earth.

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ganisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence: 

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Claim: If there were no decomposers, there would be very much disruption in the food web, because not only would the Earth be littered with dead matter and dead bodies, but there would be no way to recycle the nutrients and matter from the carcasses back into the ecosystem.
Evidence:
1. Nitrogen cycle game
2. Whenever an organism dies, decomposers make it rot and slowly decompose back into the ecosystem
3. Eco-column decomposition layer

Reasoning: In the nitrogen game, the decomposer level would break down dead organisms and put nutrients back into the soil. By doing this, the nutrients and nitrogen could now go back into the atmosphere, bacteria, or live plants and help the cycle continue. If the decomposers were not there, then the nitrogen and nutrients needed to continue the cycle would be lying on the ground, barely usable. If decomposers couldn't decompose bodies after they died, then there would be bodies littering the ground because of the decomposers not being able to take them and break them down back into the ground. They would cover the ground and probably not allow for many things to grow, causing even more disruption. The eco-column decomposition layer is an example of the breaking down of organisms back into the soil, so that the matter can be used to continue the cycle in an ecosystem, and make sure that everything can live and is in balance. This is why having no decomposers would cause extreme disruption in the food web.

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Claim: Without decomposers the food chain would collapse.
Evidence:
- Decomposers put nutrients back into the soil
-  They release carbon dioxide into the air for photosynthesis
-everything depends on everything in the food web
Reasoning: In conclusion without decomposers there would be no nutrients for producers which affects consumer and so on, causing the food chain to collapse. There would also be piles of dead organisms everywhere as the decomposers break them down. Decomposers also release carbon dioxide into the air and plants need that for photosythesis.

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Claim: Without decomposers the whole food web would be destroyed and everything would die eventually.
Evidence:
1. Eco-Column-orange rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.Plants die without the nutrients from dead carcasses.
Reasoning: without decomposers dead carcasses would litter the earth everywhere. Not only would it make the earth an awful place to live but eventually it would cause every living thing on Earth to die. This is because decomposers provide nutrients for plants. Without this nutrients plants can't survive. All other organism can't survive without oxygen which plants create therefore would also die. This represent how every part of a food web is important. So if just one small thing is disrupted and can set off the whole ecosystem.

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Claim: Without decomposers, there would be no way to cycle nutrients and break down dead organisms.
Evidence: When an organism dies, a decomposer breaks it down.
- In the nitrogen cycle, decomposers break down dead organisms to release the nitrogen and other compounds.
- In the Eco Column
Reasoning:
Without demcomposers, the earth is going to be a giant clump of dead things. the soil is ruined because no nutrient is return from the dead animals, leaf , and bugs. thus trees will die leaving us with just carbon in air which is going to affect us. this is why decomposers are something that is very crucial to our lives and other living things.

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Claim: If there was no decomposers, the world would be littered with organic matter.

Evidence:
-Decomposers help break down matter into nutrients that can be used by organisms.
-When my tomato plant grew mold, the leaves with the mold died.
-Where there is less decomposes, there is more organic matter.

Reasoning:
If there was no decomposers, the world would be littered with organic matter because they help decompose matter into nutrients that can be used by plants.

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If there were no decomposers, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the

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Period 2

Claim:
Without decomposers there would be dead things all over the surface of the world.

Evidence:
- When something dies a decomposer breaks it down into earth
- Decomposers break down organisms to release nitrogen or another compond

Reasoning:
If there are no decomposers nothing would be able to break down just ending up on the surface of the world. If something is taken away from the cycle then everything will stop in the process of making us live. Therefor without decomposers there would be dead things all over the surface of the world and nothing left.

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Claim: Without decomposers, there would be no way to cycle nutrients and break down dead organisms.

Evidence:
- When an organism dies, a decomposer breaks it down.
- In the nitrogen cycle, decomposers break down dead organisms to release the nitrogen and other compounds.
- In the Eco Column
Reasoning:
Without demcomposers, the earth is going to be a giant clump of dead things. the soil is ruined because no nutrient is return from the dead animals, leaf , and bugs. thus trees will die leaving us with just carbon in air which is going to affect us. this is why decomposers are something that is very crucial to our lives and other living things.

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Claim: Without decomposers there would be now way to cycle nutrients and break down dead matter in the ecosystem, therefor  there would be multiple carcasses spread out across the floor.
Evidence:
Decomposers are key in every food web/chain. Without them entire ecosystems would fall apart into pieces. Also, decomposers are the only thing that breaks down dead matter in the ecosystem. This is so it can be later recycled into the atmosphere, just like in the Nitrogen Cycle Game. Another piece of evidence is the eco-column. Without decomposers in our eco-column the nutrients couldn't be recycled to be used in the soil.
Reasoning:
Without decomposers most of ecosystems will be destroyed, destroying humans environment too. This shows how incredibly valuable they are.

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Claim: Without decomposers, the food chain would suffer.
Evidence:
-Eco Column
-Nitrogen Cycle
- Decomposers break down nutrients and return them to the soil.
-Plants depend on nutrients to grow
-Animals take a long time to rot
Reasoning:
Without decomposers the whole food chain would suffer. First of all, decomposers break down plants and animals and return the nutrients to the soil. If there were none then plants wouldn't get enough nutrients to grow, and die. With plants gone, herbivores won't be able to survive either. This leaves the top level of the food chain without food because they died from the loss of plants. The Nitrogen Cycle activity helps to show how an ecosystem works together to survive and without one, the others crumble. The Eco Columns shows how fast things break down with decomposers. In the end, piles of carcasses and plants would be everywhere and the habitat would be destroyed. This is why the food chain would suffer without decomposers.

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If their were no decomposers that would make everything go out of wack and then we would loose oxygen and i could not do the game because the zoom was quitting me and my brother was bossing me around

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Claim: Without decomposers everyone would die from lac of starvation and oxygen because no plants would be able to go.
Evidence:
1.Eco column
2. nitrogen cycle game 3.
Matter can not be made or destroyed
4.Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms
Reasoning:  Without decomposers no nutrients would be given back to the soil or broken down so they do not take up space on the planet, because of this we as humans would not be able to go anywhere and the planet would be over rune by waste. Also without fertile soil no plants would be able to grow for oxygen or for animals and people to eat, a domino effect will make us not be able to breathe, go anywhere, or eat anything.

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Claim: If there were no decompose rs, there would be nothing to break apart dead organisms and return their nutrients into the atmosphere, therefore causing carcasses to pile up on Earth, as well as destroying the whole food web.
Evidence:
1:In my Eco column the decomposition layer converted all of the dead thing into nutrients.
Reasoning: If there was no decompose rs there would be nothing to break and the dead will just be laying on the ground. That is why we need decompose rs and it would be very hard to live without them.

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Claim
If there were no decomposes on the earth everything in the environment would be disrupted.
Evidence
1. Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
Reasoning
If there were no decomposrs the middle layer with the scraps of food would not decompose and make the soil rich for the plants. The plants that don't get nutrients from the soil effect the animals that need plants (including humans). This is a a huge domino effect on the environment and would cause a lot of danger for the earth and everyone on it.

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Claim
If there were no decomposers on earth then a bunch of dead animals and plants would be rotting all over and then there would only be rot. Also atoms that live in the dead animals won't get transferred to another thing.

Evidence
There would be rot everywhere because the decomposers jobs are to make sure that nothing rots by eating the carcasses and putting the remaining carcass of an animal or a plant back into the earth so that it doesn't rot and there aren't dead animals lying everywhere. Also the atoms won't go anywhere because the ones living in the dead animals are not going to get transferred by the decomposers.

Reasoning
Without decomposers, the world would be a bunch of dead animals and plants all around everywhere.This would happen because there would be no decomposers to eat the carcasses and return the remains back into the earth. Also there would be no more atoms because the ones that live in the dead carcasses aren't transferred by the decomposers. Therefore, decomposers are very crucial to our lives and the lives of living and or nonliving things.

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Claim: Without decomposers there would a bunch of dead stuff laying all over the place. It would be a mess without decomposers.
Evidence: -
Nitrogen cycle game
-Eco-coulmn middle layer wouldn't be able to break down and decompose the compost.
Reasoning: Without decomposers it would be a total mess because plants would start being affected as well. They wouldn't be able to get all their nutrience that they need in order to stay alive and healthy. So, without decomposers everything would start slowly crashing down from there.

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Claim
with out a decomposers there would be dead animals and bodies and nothing to decompose them. plants would take a long time to grow. this would also destroy the whole food web.

Evidence
decomposers make thing rot and give nutrients to the soil to help plants grow. bodies of animals and humans would be laid all on the floor and because nothing is there to rot them and decompose them into the soil.

Reasoning
Without decomposers the whole food chain will be messed up. the eco column shows that without nutrients the plants would not grow. When i did not have worms in the eco column the plants were growing, but not at a high pace. After putting in the worms, thy later died or were squished they decomposed into the soil. due to the worms decomposing, I think that the plants grew faster. there was more nutrients in the soil.

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Claim.  Without decomposers, the whole food chain will be different in a negative way.
1. Eco-Column
2. Nitrogen Cycle Game
3.“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
Reasoning:
Without decomposers, the whole food chain will be different in a negative way.  One reason is because of the Eco Column.   Here, both of the other layers rely on the decomposition layer.  The terrestrial relies on it to put new nutrients into the soil and the aquatic because the decomposition layer takes out ammonia which the fish can't have.  The second resdon is the Nitrogen Cycle Game.  This Game shows that the decomp layer passes nutrients via nitrogen to soil and then to plants.   Without this, the plants won't be alive and then the animals that eat them will die off and the animals that eat them will die.  So,  without decomposers, the whole food chain will be different in a negative way.

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claim:
without  any decompoers the earth will be fill with dead plant, animals, bugs and even bodys. this will affect the food web greatly.
evidence:
1).decomposer are things that makes everything rot. thus it makes every nutrient will go to the soil.
2). in our eco-colum, the decmposer which is Bactria and the earth worm decomposed all the things we left in there. it is gone on the 2 week. if there was none of the decomposer it will be like our eco-colum but without any difference from the first day. (this will also affect the fish below.
3). if there is dead thing every without decomposing, it will ruin the food web and the soil. this means that all trees will die making no oxygen. with out oxygen we will die.
Reasoning:
without demcomposers, the earth is going to be a giant clump of dead things. the soil is ruin because no nutrient is return from the dead animals, leaf , and bugs. thus trees will die leaving us with just carbon in air which is going to affect us. this is why decomposers are something that is very crucial to our lives and other living things.

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Claim - nothing will ever break down causing earth to be a wasteland of rotting matierials.
Evidence -
-“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”
- Nitrogen cycle game
-Eco colums
Reasoning-
If we didnt have decomposers nothing would ever break down causing earth to be a wastland of
dead plants. This is because first decomposers break down organic matierial from dead things into nutrients to help other plants grow.
My second reason is when we built are eco colums. Without the decomposition layer the plant will die. My third reason is the nitrogen cycle game. Where would we go after we die. We couldnt be broken down into the soil like were supposed to because they're no decomposers.

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Claim - nothing would ever waste away, we would live  in a place full of feces and corpses

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Claim - nothing would ever waste away, we would live  in a place full of feces and corpses

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evidence
decomposers are known to decompose things that are no longer needed into something useful, so if their where none there would not be anyway to get rid of waste `- Olivia Hurst period 2

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Claim
Without decomposer the soil wouldn't be fertile and the nitrogen cycle would be stuck, and plants would die which would cause the food chain to implode

Evidence
Plants need soil
nitrogen goes through the soil
The eco column wouldn't work without a decomposer level
Without plants the food web wouldn't work.
Eco-Column-lemon rotting and being broken down
Nitrogen Cycle Game
“Nutrients are nonliving matter that are crucial to the growth of living organisms.
When organisms die, decomposers break them down into nutrients and gases so that they can be used by other organisms such as plants.”

Reasoning
Without fertile soil the plants can't grow, and the entire food chain can't survive without plants. Second the Earth would pile up with corpses which all the nitrogen in the corpses would stay there. The Nitrogen Cycle would also get stuck without plants. Another reason is without decomposers recycling nutrients the soil wouldn't be fertile. Also without plants C02 would have no where to go piling up in the Earth. Finally without decomposers life itself couldn't work, since the food web is very fragile removing decomposers would destroy most if not all living things.

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Without decomposers

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Claim- According to the Eco-Column project, without any decomposers,
none of the animals nor plants would be broken down and turned into nutrients. If this happens, then other animals would run out of food, and then the whole entire food web would be destroyed.

Evidence-
* The Eco-Column project
*The nitrogen game
* Nitrogen cycle

Reasoning- When any organism dies, decomposers step in and do their part of breaking down the animals into nutrients for other animals to eat.